Re: Timer problem

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:34:00 +0100 (BST)


does the hardware rtc lose time ie does the machine lose time when it is
switched off?

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Eduardo Soriano wrote:

> Linux 2.0.36 RedHat 5.2
>
> Hello,
>
> We are using three systems with the same Linux 2.0.36 version.
>
> One has no timer problem, meanwhile two other systems are going back
> by 15 minutes a day.
>
> Differences:
>
> The two machines having this timer troubles have both an integrated
> Adaptec 7800 Adaptec controller and a 3c905 10/100 network controller.
>
> These motherboards are Asus P2B-D/P2B-DS Dual Pentium.
>
> /proc/interrupts of one of the systems:
>
> 0: 168097280 timer
> 1: 6597 keyboard
> 2: 0 cascade
> 8: 1 + rtc
> 11: 33829457 eth0
> 12: 7321490 aic7xxx
> 13: 15201284 + IPI
>
> We can turn around this problem installing a networked timer server based on
> nist package from frank@icce.rug.nl
>
> Before we deliver such solution, is someone having an idea from where the
> problem is coming (dual processor, integrated aic7xxx, etc)
>
> Regards
>
> E. Soriano
>
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